| VA | SB1040 | Intro
25% | Electric utilities; renewable energy portfolio standard program requirements; power purchase agreements. Amends certain renewable energy portfolio standard program requirements for Dominion Energy Virginia, including the annual percentage of program ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB1119 | Intro
25% | Elections; primary dates; presidential year primaries. Provides that all primaries for offices to be filled at the November election in presidential election years shall be held on the date of the presidential primary. With respect to candidates for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Reported from Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N 1-A) |
| VA | SJR249 | Engross
50% | Constitutional amendment (first reference); marriage between two adult persons; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition; affirmative right to marry. Repeals the constitutional provision defining marriage as only a union between one man and one woman ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Read third time and agreed to by Senate (24-Y 15-N) |
| VA | SJR247 | Engross
50% | Constitutional amendment (first reference); fundamental right to reproductive freedom. Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that such right shall not be denied, burdened, or infringed upon unless justif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Read third time and agreed to by Senate (21-Y 19-N) |
| VA | SJR248 | Engross
50% | Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters; right to vote; persons not entitled to vote. Provides that every person who meets the qualifications of voters set forth in the Constitution of Virginia shall have the fundamental ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Read third time and agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N) |
| VA | SB839 | Intro
25% | Zoning; by-right multifamily development in areas zoned for commercial use. Requires a locality to provide in its zoning ordinance provisions allowing for the by-right development and construction of multifamily residential uses on all land contained...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (5-Y 7-N 3-A) |
| VA | SB840 | Intro
25% | Child labor; child engaged in the work of content creation; trust account. Specifies certain criteria for a child to be considered engaged in the work of content creation and prohibits a child who is under 14 years of age from engaging in the work of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
Incorporated by Commerce and Labor (SB998-Williams Graves) (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1114 | Intro
25% | Local regulation of solar facilities; special exceptions. Provides that a ground-mounted solar energy generation facility to be located on property zoned agricultural, commercial, industrial, or institutional shall be permitted pursuant to various cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB975 | Intro
25% | Statewide housing targets for localities. Requires localities to increase their total housing stock by at least 7.5 percent over the five-year period beginning January 1, 2026. The bill provides that, in order to meet the 7.5 percent growth target, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (4-Y 8-N 3-A) |
| VA | SB1223 | Intro
25% | Historical horse racing; pari-mutuel wagering; certain localities. Prescribes the distribution of the breakage retained by any licensee in a locality that has not passed a referendum allowing pari-mutuel wagering on or after July 1, 2018, and in whic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate General Laws: Gaming Committee |
| VA | SJR272 | Pass | Commending Anne Cochrane Pace.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | SB871 | Intro
25% | Retail sales and use tax; media-related exemptions; sunset. Extends from 2025 to 2028 the expiration of the retail sales and use tax exemption for certain printed materials purchased by an advertising business from a printer in the Commonwealth, so l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1015 | Intro
25% | Vitamins, minerals, and food supplements; practice of chiropractic; definition. Amends the definition of "practice of chiropractic" to include recommending or directing patients on the use of vitamins, minerals, or food supplements. The bill also all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Education: Health Professions Committee |
| VA | SJR279 | Pass | Commending the Reverend Dr. Kirkland R. Walton.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ279ER) |
| VA | SR210 | Pass | Commending Lawrence Douglas Wilder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Bill text as passed Senate (SR210ER) |
| VA | SJR280 | Intro
25% | The annual House Senate Basketball Game.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Laid on Clerk's Desk |
| VA | SB738 | Intro
25% | Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; student cell phone possession and use policies; development and implementation. Directs each school board to develop and each public elementary and secondary school to implement age-appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB822 | Intro
25% | Public elementary and secondary school teachers; certain training activities; requirements and limitations. Prohibits any public elementary or secondary school teacher from being required to participate in any non-academic training activity, as that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 8:00 am]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB838 | Intro
25% | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; recovery residences; certification required; penalty; work group. Changes the existing civil penalty for a violation of law related to the operation of recovery residences to a Class 1 misde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Rereferred from Education and Health to Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB855 | Intro
25% | Board of Education; Standards of Learning assessments and related student assessment methods; assessment development, implementation, and administration reform. Modifies provisions relating to assessment methods for determining the level of achieveme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SB955 | Intro
25% | Public schools; textbooks and other high-quality instructional materials. Makes several changes relating to the textbooks and other high-quality instructional materials that are utilized as the curriculum basis for public elementary and secondary sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee |
| VA | SJR277 | Pass | Commending Lawrence Douglas Wilder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ277ER) |
| VA | SB1424 | Intro
25% | Prohibited acquisition and ownership of single-family homes; restrictions; civil penalty. Restricts any partnership, corporation, or real estate investment trust that manages funds pooled from investors and has $50 million or more in net value or ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | SB1014 | Intro
25% | Department of Human Resource Management; hiring on the basis of direct experience. Prohibits, with certain exceptions, any state agency from requiring an applicant to have a baccalaureate degree as a condition of eligibility for hire to a position in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB854 | Intro
25% | Consumer Data Protection Act; social media platforms; addictive feed prohibited for minors. Prohibits a person that operates a social media platform that has knowledge that a user of the social media platform is a child under the age of 18 from using...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | SJR269 | Intro
25% | Persian Heritage Month. Designates March, in 2025 and in each succeeding year, as Persian Heritage Month in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | SJR267 | Intro
25% | Commending the National Conference of State Legislatures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
Prefiled and laid on Clerk's desk; Offered 01-10-2025 25104115D |
| VA | SB974 | Intro
25% | Subdivision ordinance; plan review by designated agent. Removes planning commission and governing body approval authority for the administrative review process for plats and plans and assigns such authority solely to a designated agent, defined in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-07
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SJR255 | Intro
25% | Study; JLARC; Virginia's campaign finance laws; independent agency; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study Virginia's campaign finance laws. In its study, JLARC is directed to (i) identify any legal, techni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-06
To Senate Rules Committee |
| VA | SB507 | Intro
25% | Paid sick leave; health care providers and grocery store workers. Requires employers to provide paid sick leave to health care providers and grocery store workers. Under current law, employers are only required to provide paid sick leave to certain h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB123 | Intro
25% | Improvements, repairs, or maintenance of property; entering adjoining property; petition for entry. Allows an owner or lessee of real property who seeks to improve, repair, or maintain his property to petition the circuit court for a license to enter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB124 | Intro
25% | Sports betting; Virginia college sports. Permits betting, with the exception of proposition betting, on Virginia college sports. Under current law, betting other than proposition betting is allowed on all college sports except Virginia college sports...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB430 | Intro
25% | Residential development in certain areas; affordable housing. Provides that any type of residential use that is permitted in a locality shall be considered a conforming residential use on any parcel other than parcels zoned for (i) agriculture, (ii) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB359 | Engross
50% | Consumer Data Protection Act; social media platforms; addictive feed. Prohibits a person that operates a social media platform that has knowledge that a user of the social media platform is a child under the age of 18 from using an addictive feed, de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee |
| VA | SB697 | Engross
50% | Solar and energy facilities; local regulation. Prohibits a locality from including in an ordinance (i) limits on the total amount, density, or size of any ground-mounted solar facility or energy storage facility until such time that the total area un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB375 | Intro
25% | Presidential electors; National Popular Vote Compact. Enters Virginia into an interstate compact known as the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote. Article II of the Constitution of the United States gives the st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-18
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
